Here is my new Azalea, not that new bought it many years ago as a potensai, but went in to the garden.Last week I dug it up again, its a garden variety with yellow flowers.And no the big long branch can not be bend (I think)What do you think of the tree, okay or.... and why.Ideas most welcome.

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I let the stump be for a couple of months, the tree can prepare it self and make new sapflows before removing.This should be quiet important with azaleas but also other trees, I did learn this of sensei Tsukada.

by will baddeley on Wed Apr 14, 2010 1:56 am

I like the tree Peter, It has some good movement. I think it might look better as a cascade and in a slightly larger and deeper pot.

You could be wright Will, but i have no big potstock at home, this was in stock

Well the azalea went to Burrs in my handlugage, almost everybody fell in love with this litlle tree.I also took a olive tree (shohin) with me and that one did not nearly get the same amount of wooow of the workshop visitors.We did not cut the tree, with my short talk about this tree with Mario Komsta he told me to wait until spring, however it did get some new shoes.Shoe made by my good friend the stone monkey.Pavel who is on the IBC aswell, came over to have a talk aswell, he said old tree, very good.What do you think now Will?

The plan is simple, the long cascading branch will be thined out a lot, the left small branch you see will be the new top and will get some extra feeds for more rapid growth.Like it is now the cascading branch is to powerfull and therefore hase to be thinned out.It will not be bend, its a no go, it will snap!I can not make virtuals otherwise I would show you what it would look like in the future.

What you wright about Pavel, I do not quiet understand, can you tell me in dutch???

Peter, do you know the name of this variety? It doesn't look like the azaleas I know, but rather a dwarf rhododendron variety. Also, I've seen that flower color in rhododendrons, but not azaleas. The foliage looks more rhodie to me too. I think you have a great tree there!

landerloos wrote:Yes its Rhododendron, satsuki is also Rhododendron.Real Azaleas are leafdropping plants.

Yes, I'm well aware that satsuki azaleas are "rhododendrons", Rhododendron indicum. All azaleas are rhododendrons, but not all rhododendrons are azaleas! Real Azaleas are leafdropping plants? That's completely false to say that only deciduous members of the Rhododendron family are azaleas.

Nice start. I think it needs some wiring. All the branches (except for the primary) are vertical, and leaves the trunk very bare and exposed.This just doesn't look natural to me. Wiring some of the vertical branches down and giving the full three-dimensional treatment will improve the bonsai right away.

Alan Walker wrote:Nice start. I think it needs some wiring. All the branches (except for the primary) are vertical, and leaves the trunk very bare and exposed.This just doesn't look natural to me. Wiring some of the vertical branches down and giving the full three-dimensional treatment will improve the bonsai right away.

Ofcourse you are right, we wait until spring though, winter is coming in scandinavia.

A lott of people at Burrs asked me if it had bleu/purple flowers, well here is a close up of the flower.Its a picture of fading times, we have currently 30cm of snow here on the island of Funen (DK)Peter

Good Morning, Peter!Will you please be host to a question of mine concerning my own young azalea...

Well, considering these two posts

landerloos wrote: ... ... ... It will not be bend, its a no go, it will snap!... ... ... Peter

fiona wrote: ... ... ...I think you'd have to make a similar reduction on the other side - leaving only a jin perhaps.... ... ...

and since I have had this kind of accident with one branch while making some minor wiring, I would like to have your opinions....I have not seen up to now a bonsai azalea with some kind of shari or jin or any such thing.Do you think the broken branch can be turned to a jin? Every aspect wellcome!